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Contour Tool : Practicality and effectiveness when creating contour lines of a solid or surface. Did you know that MinePlan 3D has a tool that allows you to create contour lines from a solid or surface? The Contour Tool allows you to automatically create contour lines from surfaces or solids. It can be used to generate the contours of a topography, or the toe and ridge lines of a pit design, for example. To do so, simply access the tool from the Polyline or Surface menus. You must then select the required geometry, and define the elevations at which you want to create the contour lines. In the Elevation section, the Find Limits option can be useful for finding the vertical limits of your element. The Increment box allows you to define…

Popup Menu Definition: Customizing shortcuts for MinePlan 3D. Did you know that MinePlan 3D (MP3D) has a feature that allows the configuration of shortcuts accessible by the right mouse button? The Popup Menu is one of the main tools for defining shortcuts within MinePlan, in addition to providing access to recently used functions. By default, the tool is defined by the last ten functions used, and when accessing the Popup Menu Definition, located in the Menu Viewer, you can perform customizations. By opening the tool and enabling it, it is possible to add functions to the Static Functions List, which will always be visible when using the Popup Menu. To do so, just click on the function, and use the right arrow, creating the list. The first two available options (“—–” and “—– New Column”) are for better organization of sections…

Materials: Assigning characteristics and values to elements. Did you know that it is possible to associate an attribute with several elements of a single object? Materials define the display attributes of MinePlan elements and data and can be accessed in the project's “_msresources/materials” folder. They allow you to associate a common set of attributes to several MinePlan elements at once, such as color, visibility and labels, as well as defining specific values to use when coding other objects, or even a block model. In a project, for example, with several lithologies, each one can be associated with a Material so that the visualization is different between them. This procedure can be performed using the Attribute Tool located in the “Element” menu. Figure 1: Material allocation by lithology. Wassup, did you like this tip? For more information about Materials, in addition to…